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Tune up   /tun əp/   Listen
Tune up

verb
1.
Adjust for (better) functioning.  Synonym: tune.
2.
Adjust the pitches of (musical instruments).  Synonym: tune.






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"Tune up" Quotes from Famous Books



... by one from a little door beneath the stage hardly bigger than the entrance of a rabbit hutch. They settled themselves in front of their racks, adjusting their coat-tails, fingering their sheet music. Soon they began to tune up, and a vague bourdon of many sounds—the subdued snarl of the cornets, the dull mutter of the bass viols, the liquid gurgling of the flageolets and wood-wind instruments, now and then pierced by the strident ...
— The Pit • Frank Norris



Words linked to "Tune up" :   set, service, tune-up, untune, adjust, tweak, tune in, correct, fine-tune



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